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Features

• • Storage industry index

    May followed April's dramatic decline.

  • Saving Media from Extinction

    What do whales and digitizing analog broadcast tapes have in common?

  • Bocada clarifies backup picture by W. Curtis Preston

    Bocada's latest version of BackupReport could make your life easier if you have to track multiple backup servers.

  • Virtualize the right way by Marc Farley

    Here are some guidelines for designing virtualized systems.

  • Brocade, McData Bolster Midrange Families

    Dominant Fibre Channel switch vendors Brocade and McData have both made significant enhancements to their midrange 2Gb/s Fibre Channel switch platforms.

  • Network appliance raises the bar for NAS/SAN convergence by Michael Desmond

    The FAS900 series breaks new ground in bringing together file and block storage.

  • The Whys and Wherefores of Failed Backups

    Despite all the effort storage administrators pour into backup, backups fail about 40% of the time.

  • Definition

    Direct Memory Access

  • Towards the new data center by David Braue

    Modular servers, separate storage and networked storage all add up to flexibility and efficiency unprecedented in the glass house.

• • API Swaps: Only Skin Deep

  • Microsoft Scales Data Center Wall with MPIO

    Microsoft is exhausting data center managers' objections to running Windows in the data center.

  • TCO analysis: does it work for storage?

    TCO analysis is all the rage, but use with caution—the numbers can be twisted by vendors trying to make a sale.

  • Migrating Data No Picnic - and No Bargain

    To describe data migration as complex is an understatement and tools to assist in data migration, meanwhile, are few and far between,

  • How to make your budget case by Tom Pisello

    Justify yourself to the budget committee - here's how.

  • Director or core switch: which one works for you?

    Each brings with it certain assumptions about reliability and manageability. But there's hope: The architectures are converging.

  • Storage Manager Profile

    NAS vs. SAN? Who Cares?

  • Get top performance from database storage by Benjamin Kuo

    Taking your SAN beyond backup to run production databases requires the right layout, good practices and better integration. The benefits: high performance, floor-space savings and streamlined operations.

• Columns

  • It still comes down to good old backup and restore

    Storage Bin: After all these years, it still comes down to good old backup and restore.

  • Guidelines to troubleshooting your SAN. by Darryl Brooks

    Guidelines to troubleshooting your SAN.

  • Hot Spots: Create a storage services group now

    Our new columnist looks at creating a storage services group.

  • Do you use 1Gb/s or 2Gb/s switches?

    Do you use 1Gb/s or 2Gb/s switches?

  • Pick the right database backup option by James Damoulakis

    Pick the right database backup option.

  • Integration by James Damoulakis

    Pick the right database backup option.

  • Time to sign up by Mark Schlack

    Time to sign up.

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